[matt-p]

I suspect almost everyone shares a netflix account with thier household and statistically there's few single person households. So this is life, everything is setup for the average even things like bin collections will assume multiple people in your house.

[danpalmer]

I shared Netflix with my family (parents, sister, brother) for 2 years and think I ran into the 2 screen limit twice. 4 screens seems just entirely unnecessary to me.

That said, if Netflix decided 4K was the segmentation for the higher plan and gave 4 screens to the lower plan, that wouldn't suit me personally, but I would prefer the pricing. Honestly the screens concept seems outdated with their anti-password sharing stuff now. Just apply the same WiFi pinning to all viewing and don't limit screens at all.

[Kye]

The more typical use case involves background TV running in multiple rooms. Much of what Netflix licenses and produces is made for this.

Recently: "Casual Viewing – Why Netflix looks like that" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42529756

It's easy to blow past four with a screen, not necessarily a TV, going in every room.

[formerly_proven]

Are there that many people with deep-fried brains like that?

[Kye]

Some people just do better with ignorable vibrations in their spaces.

[datadrivenangel]

It was a staple of the 90s/20s.

[danpalmer]

Even if we take a family of 4 as an example, who are at most 1/3rd of Netflix's user base according to another commenter, that means having 4 TVs/PCs, all on at the same time, and all with Netflix playing. That seems like a real edge case at the fringes to me, not least because it would necessitate no one in the family being together.

[formerly_proven]

Almost 30% of households are singles and another third are households of two.

[matt-p]

And netflix have two plans with only 1 screen.